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From: chapman@fornax.uucp
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: stubby beer bottles
Message-ID: <28@fornax.uucp>
Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 18:45:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  6 18:45:59 1986
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Organization: Computing Science Dept, SFU,  Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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> 
> While we are on the topic of useless properties of the Canadian beer
> industry, I'd like to know why it is that we in Ontario are deprived of
> Maritime beer (such as Keith's which everyone at home in Nova Scotia
> drinks) which is much better tasting than the garbage that they brew in 
> Ontario. Just about everyone in the world can drink Moosehead except us.
> People in the States and in England tell me what good beer we have and
> I can't even drink it without going home and bringing back a case or two.
> BTW, is it legal to bring beer across provincial borders by putting it
> on a bus as freight?

I think the reason you can't get the beer you want is a matter of procincial
regulation.  The rule is that the only canadian made beer you can buy in
province X is beer that is made in province X.  I would suspect the companies
and/or unions are responsible for this one. I also think this is fairly recent.
I used to drink Molson's Ex here in BC and then went to live in Ontario for
a while - when I finally returned you could no longer get it in BC.

I agree with peoples comments about `imported' beer made in canada.
It does taste like canadian beer; and because you can buy `domestic-
imported' Heiniken (Toby, etc.) you can no longer get the real stuff
(I didn't drink imports too often but it made a nice change once in
a while).

I find the stubby much easier to handle for home brew as well, both in
cleaning and capping.  Twenty cases of them also take a lot less room
than the current bottles (you can still get stubbies if you know people
who drink cider,at least in bc).

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